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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sort and move multiple files by modification date Post 302927031 by Paul Walker on Sunday 30th of November 2014 12:55:05 AM
Old 11-30-2014
Sort and move multiple files by modification date
Hi I have a problem, I have a large group of archive files in a folder some are later versions of the same archive, the only difference btween them is that the archiving program we use appends the name with a code for it to keep track of in its data base, and the modification date.
I am starting to accumulate a large number of duplicate archive files am trying to find a way to isolate the files by name and move only the latest version to a new folder.
If any one has any ideas how I might accomplish this I would greatly appreciate if you could point me in the right direction.
I had thought that I could use list in some way and create a command from that with sed to move the correct files to another folder.
Thank you very much
 

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NAME

       file-roller - archive manager for GNOME

SYNOPSIS

       file-roller [OPTIONS...]  [FILE...]

DESCRIPTION

       File Roller is a graphical interface to archiving utilities such as tar and zip.

       It  supports  most  common operations such as creating, modifing and extracting files from an archive. You can also view the contents of an
       archive and open files contained in the archive.

OPTIONS

       -a, --add-to=ARCHIVE
	      Add files to the specified archive and quit the program

       -d, --add FILE
	      Add files asking the name of the archive and quit the program

       -e, --extract-to=FOLDER
	      Extract archives to the specified folder and quit the program

       -f, --extract
	      Extract archives asking the destination folder and quit the program

       -h, --extract-here
	      Extract archives using the archive name as destination folder and quit the program

       --default-dir=FOLDER
	      Default folder to use for the '--add' and '--extract' commands

       --force
	      Create destination folder without asking confirmation

       This program also accepts the standard GNOME and GTK options.

AUTHORS

       file-roller is written by Paolo Bacchilega <paolo.bacch@tin.it>.

       This manual page was written by Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

SEE ALSO

       gtk-options(7), gnome-options(7)

       The online documentation available through the program's Help menu.

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